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Hi, after setting up my 14.04 linode by following most of this page

http://feross.org/how-to-setup-your-linode/

and setting a second user account, I ssh'd in as my second user account and continued setting things up.

I wanted to do 'reboot' and was told I need to be root to do that.

so I ssh'd in as root, but got 'invalid password' message.

So I reset my root password using this:

https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/ac … -passwords">https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/accounts-and-passwords "Resetting the Root Password"

I ssh in again and I am still am told 'invalid password'

Any suggestions?

Michael

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Can you sudo to root from your second account? If you can then your password is OK and the issue is your ssh config

Yes! I can do

sudo su root

successfully.

I will try and figure out what's wrong with my ssh config, thanks.

Check "permitrootlogin" setting in sshd_config

Ubuntu 14.04 by default only allows root logins with ssh keys as sweh said check PermitRootLogin in /etc/ssh/sshd_config it will be set to without-password

Our image allows root login with password over SSH. But following that guide involves setting PermitRootLogin to "no":

> Set “Port” to “44444” and “PermitRootLogin” to “no”. Save the file and restart the SSH service:

Hey. I'm having the same troubles as Mazz, except for I have no second user. I've followed the https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/ac … -passwords">https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/accounts-and-passwords document as well.

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